[bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a validating practice question

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:18:00 -0800 (PST)

Yes, when I come across tables I do translate them
into text, if I can. Otherwise, as in Archaeology of
the Lands of the Bible, I leave them jumbled and hope
that the reader can make sense of them. Some tables
are too comnplex and long and impossible to explain in
text.

Cindy

--- Sarah Van Oosterwijck
<curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you rescan the table you should probably convert
> it to simple text instead of leaving it as a table
> because it is very likely that it will not come out
> correctly in the final bookshare files.  I
> unfortunately don't have a good suggestion for what
> to do to make a table work, since tabs and multiple
> spaces have never appeared in anything I have
> examined.  I heard that tables would be functional
> at some point, but I haven't heard that the fix was
> implemented yet.
> 
> As for the extra pages in the book.  I wonder if the
> validator put the book in Word to validate and had
> it add page breaks because it thought some of the
> pages were too long.  Losing blank pages was common
> with Kurzweil in the past, but adding is a little
> more strange.  I do find it very annoying when they
> get messed up, but I don't think it is the bookshare
> system that is doing it.  I am certain it is usually
> caused by the validator.
> 
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> Assistive Technology Trainer
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> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Kenneth A. Cross 
>   To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:11 PM
>   Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a
> validating practice question
> 
> 
>   Do you want me to try to get the table?The book, I
> think, was the collected
>   short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It wasn't
> that the contents were
>   messed up; it was that in changing the page
> numbers the number of pages was
>   greatly increased; accordingly, the contents were
> no longer correct; in a
>   short story book, that doesn't make the book very
> easy to use.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:03 PM
>   Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Empire Falls, and a
> validating practice
>   question
> 
> 
>   > I have validated a lot of your books Kenneth
> Cross and wonder which book
>   > ended up with a messed up table of contents etc.
>   > By the way, I was just double checking on that
> copyright issue with Daily
>   > Life in Chaucer's England since copyright
> verification is not my thing.
>   >
>   > It is a great scan.  The only thing which did
> not come out quite right is
>   a
>   > small table.  It is interesting I am sure since
> it talks about the price
>   of
>   > everyday goods and how much various folks in
> society obtained as income.
>   >
>   > E.
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